ENVIRONMENT

Insights related to the environment are ever growing. Here you’ll find articles that connect people to planet.

Celebrity Environmentalism: Who Cares and does it Matter?

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What role do celebrities play in environmentalism? What distinguishes some celebrities from others? Is celebrity environmentalism helpful, hurtful, or both? In this review article, the authors identify and unpack 9 different celebrity tropes with regards to environmentalism. Check out the abstract below, and then click through to the main article to learn more:  The Tropes […]

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Role models in girlhood: the problem of representation

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How does the problem of representation for role-models amongst young women and girls shape their ambitions towards leadership? It is generally assumed that when people recognize themselves in the leaders they see, they will believe that these roles are for them too, and may then in turn seek to achieve it for themselves. But as

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An image of a white woman floating in dark waters. She is wearing a black dress and is floating alongside white and pink flowers.

How to ‘close the loop’ in fashion?

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Closing the loop on take, make, waste: Investigating circular economy practices in the Swedish fashion industry Peer-reviewed research by: Dr Taylor Brydges The global fashion and apparel industry has a longstanding, ongoing, and growing, reputation for exploitation and waste. Drawing on the Swedish fashion industry, this paper shows how interventions to curb environmental impact must

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On Canada’s commitments to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

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How is Canada doing when it comes to meeting global standards set by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals? Peer-reviewed research:  Dr Tracy Smith-Carrier and Jacqueline On In 2021, Canada launched its Canadian Indicator Framework for the Sustainable Development Goals. In this article, the author’s show how Canada has committed to no more than ‘business as

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COVID-19 & children’s rights in Scotland

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COVID-19 saw widescale disruptions to the social, cultural, political and economic fabric of everyday life for countless individuals the world over. New research from MacLachlan, McMellon and Inchley (2022) draw attention to the toll the pandemic has played on children’s rights, in the context of mental health. There is a need to shift away from

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